Roving-can



(No Model.)

D. R. KENNEDY.

ROVING CAN.

Patented Mar. 81, 1885,

DAVID RICHARD KENNEDY, OF \VARE, MASSACHUSETTS.

ROVlNG-CAN.

SPECIFICATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,685, dated March 31, 1885.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID RICHARD KEN- NEDY, of Ware, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Roving-Can, of which the following.

is a specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective View of my improved can as an entirety. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional elevation showing the peculiar construction and local relation of its parts.

In the construction and combination of parts which characterize the roving-can now in public use there is a serious defect, which it is the special object of my invention to remedy-namely, a constant tendency of the bands to work loose and drop off, thus allowing the bottom to fall out. In order to avoid this I have employed a different construction and combination of parts. This change from what has gone before will first be describedin connection with the drawings,and then clearly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the can, the same being bent outwardly at the lower edge, as shown at a in Fig. 2. B is the band, which is made of wrought-iron, preferably, but not necessarily, and which. instead of being perpendicular on its inside face, as in the well-known roving-can, is made with a wedgeshaped groove, 1), whose upper wall, I), is undercut or flared, while the under wall, If, is horizontal, whereby the former locks with the bent edge a of the body, so as to hold it fast, and with it take the strain of lilt when the body is handled. The horizontal wall counteracts and takes the downward pressure of gravity, the two walls thus constituting a joint that is not liable to work loose and let the bottom as well as the band drop off.

In order still more completely to insure a thorough tenacity and rigidity oljoint, I notch the-edge a at a and introduce into the groove 1) a filling of solder, 0, making it flush with the inside ofthe can, as shown in Fig. f the drawings. This makes the joint practically immovable, offering an effectual resistance to all strains which may be brought to bear upon it in ordinary use. The bottom is fitted to the circular space within the band, and is securely held in its position.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention, what I consider to be new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is specified in the following:

In roving-cans, the combination of a body having the lower edge turned outwardly and notched,with a band having the wedge-groove b undercut on its upper wall, and provided with a filling of solder, substantially as shown and described.

DAVID RICHARD KENNEDY.

Witnesses:

ALMER F. RICHARDSON, JOHN T. WINsLoW. 

